OrangeQS Appoints Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer

Insider Brief

• Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) has appointed Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer to lead its commercial strategy, market development and customer and partner relationships.
• Badoni brings 20 years of international experience in the semiconductor and photonics industries, including commercial and leadership roles at KLA, ASM, Onto Innovation and SMART Photonics.
• He will focus on expanding OrangeQS’s FLOW platform and broader portfolio of quantum chip testing and measurement products and services as demand for industrial-scale testing grows.

PRESS RELEASE — Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) today announces the appointment of Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).  The appointment marks an important milestone in the company’s evolution as it strengthens its executive leadership and accelerates its commercial strategy, market development and global growth ambitions with customers and partners,

Demand for industrial-scale quantum chip testing is growing.  Raj will focus on expanding FLOW and OrangeQS’s broader portfolio of products and services that enable the transition from quantum chip development to commercial-scale production.

From Semiconductors to Quantum

Raj brings 20 years of international experience across the semiconductor and photonics chips industry, having held commercial and leadership roles within leading semiconductor  companies including KLA, ASM, Onto Innovation and SMART Photonics – one of Europe’s leading integrated photonics foundries.

Raj is a physicist by training, with master’s degrees from IIT Bombay and the University of North Texas, as well as a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

In an interview, Raj said: “I have spent two decades working in semiconductors and photonics chips industries that have fundamentally shaped the world we live in. What attracted me to OrangeQS was the combination of its technology, its position in the quantum ecosystem and the opportunity to contribute at an important stage in the industry’s development. For me, OrangeQS provides an opportunity to bring my experience in technology, industrialization and commercialization into an industry that is still being shaped, and to help build the commercial foundations for the company’s next phase”

“Raj brings extensive experience from the semiconductor and photonics industries and understands what it takes to bring complex technologies closer to industrial and commercial scale,” said Garrelt Alberts, Executive Director at OrangeQS. “That experience will be valuable as we strengthen our customer relationships, strategic partnerships and commercial organization, while continuing to develop our quantum chip testing solutions around the needs of quantum chip developers and manufacturers.”

The appointment reinforces OrangeQS’s commitment to accelerating the commercial development of quantum chip testing and measurement and strengthening its position in an emerging technology market with significant long-term potential.

Raj can be reached at [email protected]. For in-person conversations, He will be in New York next week and at Q2B in Chicago next month.